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The Art of the Comic Book: An Aesthetic History (Studies in Popular Culture)

The Art of the Comic Book: An Aesthetic History (Studies in Popular Culture)

In this definitive study of one of popular culture's favorite genres Robert C. Harvey, a cartoonist and comics critic, traces the evolution of the ... More at Amazon Marketplace
The Art of the Funnies: An Aesthetic History (Studies in Popular Culture)

The Art of the Funnies: An Aesthetic History (Studies in Popular Culture)

This work examines the comic strip throughout its history for the elements that make cartoons one of the most appealing of the popular arts. The ... More at Amazon
The Tell-Tale Art: Poe in Modern Popular Culture

The Tell-Tale Art: Poe in Modern Popular Culture

Greed and guilt, near-indecipherable codes, murder plots born of madness--these motifs drive the best modern mysteries, but they are rooted in the ... More at Amazon
In Praise of Commercial Culture

In Praise of Commercial Culture

Does a market economy encourage or discourage music, literature, and the visual arts? Do economic forces of supply and demand help or harm the ... More at Amazon Marketplace
Alien Encounters: Popular Culture In Asian America

Alien Encounters: Popular Culture In Asian America

Alien Encounters showcases innovative directions in Asian American cultural studies. In essays exploring topics ranging from pulp fiction to ... More at eBay
Adventure, Mystery, and Romance: Formula Stories as Art and Popular Culture (Phoenix Series)

Adventure, Mystery, and Romance: Formula Stories as Art and Popular Culture (Phoenix Series)

In this first general theory for the analysis of popular literary formulas, John G. Cawelti reveals the artistry that underlies the best in formulaic ... More at Amazon
Filling the Hole in the Nuclear Future: Art and Popular Culture Respond to the Bomb (AsiaWorld)

Filling the Hole in the Nuclear Future: Art and Popular Culture Respond to the Bomb (AsiaWorld)

From the dawn of the atomic age, art and popular culture have played an essential role interpreting nuclear issues to the public and investigating ... More at Amazon Marketplace
Black Cultural Traffic: Crossroads in Global Performance and Popular Culture

Black Cultural Traffic: Crossroads in Global Performance and Popular Culture

"A shrewdly designed, generously expansive, timely contribution to our understanding of how 'black' expression continues to define and defy the ... More at Amazon Marketplace
Art and Celebrity

Art and Celebrity

The uneasy crossover between art and celebrity has been much discussed in recent years. Artists as celebrities is hardly a new phenomenon, but the ... More at Amazon
Black Cultural Traffic: Crossroads in Global Performance and Popular Culture

Black Cultural Traffic: Crossroads in Global Performance and Popular Culture

"A shrewdly designed, generously expansive, timely contribution to our understanding of how 'black' expression continues to define and defy the ... More at Amazon
Filling the Hole in the Nuclear Future: Art and Popular Culture Respond to the Bomb (AsiaWorld)

Filling the Hole in the Nuclear Future: Art and Popular Culture Respond to the Bomb (AsiaWorld)

From the dawn of the atomic age, art and popular culture have played an essential role interpreting nuclear issues to the public and investigating ... More at Amazon
Arts of Darkness: American Noir and the Quest for Redemption

Arts of Darkness: American Noir and the Quest for Redemption

In a striking new interpretation of film noir, Thomas Hibbs mines the philosophy and theology of these dark films to reveal a subtle but profound ... More at Amazon Marketplace
When We Were Young: New Perspectives on the Art of the Child

When We Were Young: New Perspectives on the Art of the Child

In his last and most overarching essay on the subject, Rudolf Arnheim encourages us to see the range of individuality in children's drawings and to ... More at Amazon
Designing Women (Film and Culture Series)

Designing Women (Film and Culture Series)

Grand, sensational, and exotic, Art Deco design was above all modern, exemplifying the majesty and boundless potential of a newly industrialized ... More at Amazon
Is Art Good for Us?: Beliefs about High Culture in American Life

Is Art Good for Us?: Beliefs about High Culture in American Life

Are the arts good for us? This book questions our taken-for-granted assumptions about the transformational powers of high culture by critiquing an ... More at Amazon
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